Interest in the poverty of U.S. women with children but without husbands stems from numerous sources including (i) the secular growth of this demographic group-up 110 percent since 1970 to a total of 6 million (almost 20 ...

H. Gregg Lewis, perhaps the father of modern labor economics, died in January of 1992. The comments that follow were written for presentation at a special memorial session, held at the American Economic Association Meeting ...